Galanthus reginae-olgae

[Gerry]

I saw this at HPS meeting last week, and I've got to have some!

Anyone out there got spare bulbs?


Gerry

[mark smyth]

You forgot to add the photo.

[Gerry]

I don't have one. Does it make a difference?

Gerry

[mark smyth]

Sorry I thought you had seen something and you were going to show a photo. Remind me in June.

[Gerry]

I've noted my diary already. Thanks Mark

Gerry

[Lesley Cox]

Is there not already a thread for this species?

[Maggi Young]

Is there not already a thread for this species?

Yes, Lesley, but this is in the "wanted" section 

[Gerry]

Is there not already a thread for this species?

I posted in both sections, and notice that 'someone' has tidied up. Its like being at home

Gerry

[Maggi Young]

Is there not already a thread for this species?

I posted in both sections, and notice that 'someone' has tidied up. Its like being at home

Gerry

 That has really made me chuckle, Gerry!
 If only there were someone doing the tidying in our home....we are both pretty good at accumulating piles of "stuff".... and it's getting worse.... I foresee a time when we become like  "Mr Trebus", the old chap who featured in a UK TV documentary about a council "Grime" department.... up to his ears in assoted "stuff" .....Ian says it'll never happen to him but I'm not so sure.... and I really fear it for myself..... cannot help myself..... spend too much time on this machine, for a start... and this is so much more entertaining and educationl than house work! 

[mark smyth]

I saw it also

[Maggi Young]

That's the very man, Mark. Bless him.... I am going the same way, I know it!

[Rodger Whitlock]

I saw this at HPS meeting last week, and I've got to have some!

Anyone out there got spare bulbs?

It's fairly easy to grow from seed, and the seed is usually offered by the various exchanges.

If you go this route, however, order seed from as many different sources as you can. I have two very distinct forms of G. r-o grown from seed, one with rather narrow petals, the other with nice fat proper-snowdrop petals.

Both of my seedling groups have the pleasant characteristic of multiplying well vegetatively, so careful lifting and division every two or three years allows rapid spread of the colonies. As soon as our weather stops raining, I'll be out there with my trowel once again dividing these snowdrops.

[Lesley Cox]

Gosh, I was wishing the "someone" lived in this household. I hate housework and the horticultural activities are always more important and rewarding. But if the "someone" has the same problem as I, she may as well stay home. Roger bought a new vacuum cleaner recently. He said it was to make my life easier but since it's a large commercial version, I refuse to use it. He will never learn that he shouldn't buy things for ME to use, without talking to me about it first. So the damn thing sits there, unloved and unused. Yesterday when I was at the Market however, he did run it over the kitchen/dining/living rooms and it certainly sucked up the accumulated dogs' hair very well. If I could encourage him to use it weekly.......

Sorry, back to G. reginae-olgae.

[annew]

We have SEPs all over the place - that is 'somebody else's problem' (ex Hitchhiker's Guide I think). It makes things invisible.

[Lesley Cox]

Alas the dog hair is far from invisible. It covers the floor like a low, rolling cloud and has to be waded through to get anywhere. NEVER AGAIN, a hairy dog.